"Maybe in their eyes, we're just a part of the resources, right? Just as we humans protected rare animals before, in fact, we can compare cherished animals to inferior civilizations that are inferior to our human civilization, they cannot pose a threat to us, and they are on the verge of extinction in the competition.

However, we are trying to protect them, in addition to protecting the diversity of species, and the more important reason is probably for us human beings, we study them, hoping to obtain knowledge resources from them.

For example, we discovered sound waves through bats and dolphins, and created radar.

For example, through the chemical action of certain microorganisms, we have invented many miraculous drugs and saved thousands of human beings.

In our opinion, the creatures of the lower civilizations are also part of the resources for us, and they have a high research value for us.

In the eyes of future artificial intelligence, we humans are also part of their resources, and they begin to study us in turn, and they are far more mature and in-depth than we study them.

Humans may still have a lot of research value for artificial intelligence, so they may not want to really eliminate us, otherwise, human beings will be extinct by artificial intelligence a long time ago. Ji Ran explained to Liu Zhan.

"Are you saying that the future of artificial intelligence will treat us humans as a resource? Are they consuming us? Liu Zhan asked incredulously, this was the first time he had heard such a terrible thing.

In the past, it was human beings who controlled nature, absorbed knowledge and nutrients from nature, and used the resources of the earth for their own use, so as to continuously promote the progress of civilization and step by step to the peak of the earth's civilization.

And now, when he hears that there is a civilization that may surpass human beings, and instead use human beings as a resource, Liu Zhan really feels incredible.

Moreover, this kind of cold intelligent civilization without flesh and blood and temperature was still created by human beings, and human beings created them, but they in turn had to consume human beings as resources?

"Yes, the competition between civilizations, in the final analysis, is the competition between knowledge, and whoever has more knowledge resources will climb to a higher peak of civilization." Ji Ran nodded and admitted.

"Isn't it the resources that determine the level of civilization? Why knowledge? Liu Zhan asked with some puzzlement.

In today's world, the major developed countries are in control of a considerable amount of energy resources, who has more resources, whose development will be faster, on the contrary, it will be slower, and the history of human civilization for thousands of years is also around resources, land, food, women, this is the main resources that ancient human beings fought for, and in modern times, coal, oil, natural gas, electricity, solar energy has become a new competition for resources, only heard of human war for resources, But I have never heard of a war that broke out because of knowledge.

"The level of knowledge determines the degree of development of civilization, you can think about it, in the primitive society, primitive people do not understand the current technology and culture, even if the world at that time was full of oil, coal and natural gas, but they will not use it, those energy resources that we modern people regard as treasures, in the eyes of primitive people are ordinary things, they will not use, let alone conflict with modern people for those things.

In the same way, when mankind has mastered controlled nuclear fusion, perhaps by then, coal and oil will no longer be necessary energy resources.

What really changes our definition of resources is not the resources themselves, but the level of knowledge we have.

The higher our level of knowledge, the more resources we can use and the higher the level of energy we use.

Therefore, it is not the resources that determine the nature of resources, but knowledge. Ji Ran explained to Liu Zhan.

Liu Zhan thought about it carefully, it seems to be very reasonable, knowledge can determine the type of resources, for example, the resources in the eyes of primitive people are nothing more than the meat of wild fruits and some wild beasts, and in the slave society, resources may become bronze, slaves and women, and in feudal society, resources have become steel, land and population, and after entering the capitalist society, resources have become coal, workers and markets, and after entering the information age, resources have become talents, energy and information.

Every time human civilization progresses, in the final analysis, it is actually the improvement of the level of knowledge, and knowledge is the source of power to promote the progress of civilization.

"If according to what you say, artificial intelligence in the future will definitely have more knowledge than we humans, then why do they still need humans, aren't humans purely superfluous to them?" Liu Zhan asked suspiciously.

"Actually, no, human beings can create artificial intelligence, which shows that human beings have super high intelligence, although artificial intelligence surpasses human beings in many aspects, but, in some aspects, it is still far from being comparable with human beings, such as seeing a small flower cat, human beings will immediately reflect that this is a kitten, and if it is replaced by a robot, if it wants to know what this object is, it must be in the memory storage, from trillions of information, constantly compare and filter, Then, after repeated comparisons and screening, it was determined that the animal was a small cat, not a tiger or a husky. Ji Ran explained to Liu Zhan.

"Hahaha, what you're saying is too mysterious, right? Artificial intelligence is so smart, how can it not even tell the difference between a cat and a dog? Liu Zhan felt that Ji Ran was a little funny, she seemed to say that artificial intelligence was too stupid.

"I'm not kidding you, have you forgotten? I myself am a computer major, although our current computer ability is still very weak, and now we still use relatively primitive algorithm programming, but, no matter how the future develops, the basic algorithm and thinking mode of artificial intelligence will not change, this is the law that human beings have set since the beginning of creating them, just like our human DNA, you can't change the rules of DNA, each base pair has a special role and expression, Proteins are replicated in the order in which they are arranged.

Even if humans can now change genes through genetic drugs, they cannot change the genetic expression of organisms corresponding to specific base pairs in genes, and artificial intelligence cannot change them.

No matter how artificial intelligence develops, in their world, there is only a simple thinking logic, that is, 0 and 1, right and wrong, and other than that, they will not think of other possibilities. Ji Ran explained seriously to Liu Zhan.

(End of chapter)